It should be noted that Feddit.org was included to represent Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

I did not include Baraza.africa as that was too encompassing as it covers the whole African continent.

Hopefully this post inspires more countries to join the blue club!

  • Captain Aggravated
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    263 months ago

    Are we talking “nations that have an official Lemmy instance” or “nations in which some private citizen or resident just happens to host a Lemmy instance?”

  • @JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world
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    243 months ago

    This seems to be missing Mali, the home of .ml. It’s in West Africa and since the French soldiers left it’s been an authoritarian client state of Russia. Very appropriate.

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        True, but it still gives the Malian government an ultimate authority over the domain, which just seems completely dumb to me. The also-semi-failed Libya has ultimate authority over ly domains (like bit.ly) and has actually used its power to shut down domains for being against Libyan law. Domain hacks are not just ugly, they’re dumb.

      • @JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world
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        23 months ago

        Mentioning the French troops was a bit offtopic. But my point stands. Mali is a semi-failed state that seems to have exchanged one set of foreign lords for another, much worse, set.

          • @JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world
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            23 months ago

            Firstly, the French troops were invited by Mali’s government to help it put down its jihadist insurgents. The Russian ones were invited, in turn, for the same reason, after a media-propaganda campaign by Russia that played on historic animosity dating from the colonial period. A propaganda campaign filled with angry rhetoric and sounding much like your rant.

            Meanwhile, Mali is still a semi-failed state with a jihadi problem which was caused by neither France nor Russia. And on top of that it now has brutal boorish Russian mercenaries instead of generally well-behaved French regular soldiers. Mali got a terrible deal and it was their own fault.

            You know why I’m not embarrassed to say that? Precisely because I’m not a colonialist. I believe that Mali is not a child, it’s an adult. It has agency, it’s not a colony of anyone, it’s a sovereign country that can make choices for itself. If anyone’s views here are colonialist, it’s yours.

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    I’m surprised Lemmy apparently has had hardly any penetration into the Spanish-speaking world yet. Is there some other Reddit-like service that’s popular with those folks?

    Also a long those lines, I wonder what services the Indians and Chinese are using?

    • @Tiger@sh.itjust.works
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      Chinese gotta use state-approved and controlled mainstream apps and media, or access foreign stuff via VPN. Homegrown, off the grid stuff like Lemmy only gets by as long as it’s obscure.

      If it’s big enough and ornery (includes political content, rather than say just all cooking recipes and form) it’s liable to be blocked.

    • Lemminary
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      It took us forever to adopt Reddit. I’m guessing it’ll take us just as long to move to FOSS. On the bright side, Lemmy is gathering some attention.

      Here’s one instance for Mexico https://mujico.org/ and I think there was one for one other SA country.

  • db0
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    I’m based in Luxembourg, and so is Haidra. Therefore I think we have that covered, even if we’re not specifically country-based.

    • @HSeldon10@lemmy.world
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      63 months ago

      Seguimos vivos, pero casi que fuera de la federación jaja, nos votaron por nuestros chistes pasados de lanza. Saludos.

  • stebo
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    133 months ago

    Hello I live in the little gap there that is Belgium

          • @boredtortoise@lemm.ee
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            All fascists have always used leftist promises to gain support. That talk has never matched their actions. Some people learn to not trust lying, many don’t.

            Bad actors don’t usually go telling it outright, it needs to be masked with something people need, without delivering.

          • @BrainInABox@lemmy.ml
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            13 months ago

            Liberals turning the word “fascist” from a specific term that allowed the analysis and identification of specific political phenomena, into just yet another synonym for “the bad guys”, has been instrumental in allowing actual fascism to rise again unchecked.

          • @grue@lemmy.world
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            13 months ago

            That’s true, but it doesn’t mean truly communist ideas don’t exist. Both the Fediverse and Free Software, as concepts, are pretty darn “from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs” if you think about it, ya know?

  • Zloubida
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    103 months ago

    Jlai.lu is more a francophone than strictly French instance, even if as far as I know most admins are French.

  • Krik
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    93 months ago

    No Greece? Also no India, Indonesia and Japan? Damn that’s unexpected.

    • @Trail@lemmy.world
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      The is a Greek sub, with a few news posts daily, but noone is really commenting yet.

      I had left the Greek sub on Reddit a few years back because the mods were assholes, so I don’t really miss a Greek sub to be honest.

    • poVoq
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      There is (was?) an Indian one… but run by hindutva (extreme right-wing) nationalists, so I think we can skip that one.

      There is also one that is located in Japan, but no idea if it can be described as an instance for Japan.